We have some very large oracle databases.  Most of these compress very well.
We did test with and without client compression.  The rule we used for best
is the total elapsed time.  These were going to disk pools.  We always got
better results with client compression than without.  As an added benefit,
our disk pools could be smaller and there was less bandwidth taken up on our
network.  Sounds like a win,win,win for us.

My two cents worth


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Phillip Ford
Phillip Ford
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